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A co-op team led by Professor Sang Ouk Kim and Professor Jonghwa Shin from the Department of Material Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed a high-tunable metamaterial that is able to control its refractive index at a wide range using a process called block copolymer self-assembly that produces desired material shapes and patterns at the nanoscale.
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2016.11.24 04:08
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KAIST recently developed a new optical technique that can quantitatively analyze Alzheimer’s disease through holography.
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Sejoon Huh Assistant Editor
2016.11.24 03:52
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Cells in our bodies are constantly subjected to mechanical forces, which alternately compress and expand them. Unlike the effects of hormones and drugs on cells, the impact of these manipulations are shrouded in mystery. However, researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a tool which could change that. Through their collaboration with biolog
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Tae Soo Kim Staff Reporter
2016.11.16 23:48
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The 14th KAIST-POSTECH Science War was held on September 18 and 19 at KAIST. The Science War has been held every September since 2002 and is an opportunity for students from both universities to interact with each other through competitions in various fields of science, e-sports, and sports. All of the events were covered live by Voice of KAIST (VOK).The science events consist of hacking, artifici
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Dong-Kyeong Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:49
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Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST and Professor Kyung-Jin Kim of Kyungpook National University cooperated to reveal the structure and characteristics of Thiolase, a key enzyme used in the production of bio-butanol.Bio-butanol is regarded as one of the most efficient next generation biofuels. This biofuel is known to have more outstanding fea
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:49
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Professor Chan Ho Yang of the Department of Physics at KAIST discovered a mechanism behind augmented photoelectric effect when a material bends.The photoelectric effect converts light energy into electric energy. Because this method can generate electricity without emitting greenhouse gas, research on discovering structures or methods that can efficiently induce the photoelectric effect has been g
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:48
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Professor Chan Beum Park and his research team from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering here at KAIST collaborated with Dr. Kweon Yu from the Neurophysiology Research Group in the Bionano Center at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in using light and porphyrins to suppress aggregation of β-amyloid, the main factor that causes Alzheimer's disease.
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:45
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KAIST, the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, and the Commemoration Enterprise Support Board jointly hosted the 'Future Generation's Open Square 2045' to discuss our nation’s future goals for 2045, the 100th anniversary of National Liberation. This relay debate forum, which kicked off on September 22 in Konkuk University, discusses the future of the next 30 years our nation from the
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:44
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On September 16, Reuters News released the list of the World’s Top 100 Most Innovative Universities. Leading the list was Stanford University, with KAIST in close pursuit at tenth place, the only non-US school to place in the top 10. Following Stanford was Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, placing 2nd and 3rd respectively. On the European front, the most innovativ
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Ji Min Yoon Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:43
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KAIST hosted the Brain Cognitive Engineering Symposium on September 24, at the Dream Hall of the Chung Moon Soul Building (E16). As many as 100 experts in the field of neuroscience participated in the symposium.The symposium invited six prominent experts in the field of neuroscience to deliver presentations and hold discussions about the recent research trends. Professor Paul M. Thomson of the Uni
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Ji Min Yoon Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:42
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On September 17, the University of San Diego (UCSD)-KAIST Symposium was held at the Matrix Hall in the KAIST Institutes Building (E4). The topic of the symposium was micro and nanotechnologies and electronics for the next-generation mobile, wearable, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The symposium was organized by KAIST Professor Inkyu Park and the speakers consisted of notable individuals fro
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Dong-Kyeong Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:41
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Executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Klaus Schwab received a conferral of honorary doctorate degree at KAIST. Doctor Schwab was invited on September 7 for a conferment ceremony, which was held in the Fusion Hall of KAIST Institutes Building (E4) with about 200 guests attending. After the conferral ceremony, Doctor Schwab gave a lecture on the "Influence of Destructive Innovation o
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:39
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Emeritus Professor Kyung-won Chung from the Department of Industrial Design here at KAIST received the top award at the 2015 DMI (Design Management Institute) Design Value Awards during the 40th Anniversary Gala last month in Boston, United States.Founded in 1975, the non-profit organization DMI has been dedicated to connecting design to various aspects of business and culture and changing the wor
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:38
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A research team from Seoul National University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, led by Professors Hyung Wook Kwon and Young-Joon Ahn, found olfactory mechanisms that allow fast and efficient blood feeding for mosquitos. The fruit of their research was published online on August 26 in Scientific Reports.The traditional view holds that while carbon dioxide and octanol attract mosquitos at
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:36
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NASA announced on September 29 that new findings made by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) suggest sporadic liquid water flow on present-day Mars. The MRO has been examining Mars since 2006 and is equipped with six scientific instruments. Using one such instrument, the imaging spectrometer, researchers detected hydrated minerals on Martian slopes marked with dark streaks. These streaks, appear
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Young Jae Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:36
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A new analysis from a research team at the University of Illinois provides further proof for the hypothesis that viruses are living entities. Until now, the classification of viruses has been a subject of confusion, and the consensus was that all viruses originated from an ancestral virus. The study focused on structural building blocks of proteins, called “folds,” that are found on all cells and
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Hyoyeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:34
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Is there anything to observe in the vacuum, when the vacuum is the absolute nothingness? Or is it? Professor Alfred Leitenstorfer and his research team at the University of Konstanz in Germany succeeded in direct observation of vacuum fluctuation. Against the prevailing assumption to the contrary, the research team managed to directly detect vacuum fluctuations with high-precision electric fields.
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Dong Hwan Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:34
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Professor Sang-Min Bae and his research team from the Department of Industrial Design in KAIST received one Silver award and two Bronze awards in the 2015 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA). IDEA is one of the most prestigious international design awards awarded by Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) along with the Red Dot Design Award and iF Design Award. More than 1700 proj
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Ah Hyun Kim Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:32
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KAIST Professor Woontack Woo and his research team from the Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) demonstrated their new optical augmented reality platform at the 2015 Smart Cloud Show in Seoul last month. The Smart Cloud Show is an Internet Technology (IT) trend convention, organized by Chosun Biz, that displays recent trends in IT and provides a platform for IT firms to promote their prod
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Chonghyuk Song Assistant Editor
2015.11.09 07:31
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On September 17, a colloquium on Internet of Things (IoT) and OpenStack was held by KAIST at Pangyo. The event was organized to help businesses enter the global market through providing assistance in the excavation of global business items, development of technologies, and formation of global partnerships. The colloquium was funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.The main objec
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Dong-Kyeong Lee Senior Staff Reporter
2015.11.09 07:29